this girl is on fiiiiiiiiiiiiiire!

Peter ordered pizza the night before and we carelessly left the cardboard boxes on the burners.

Note: cardboard is really freaking flammable.

Part of my wheelchair experience has been to learn it’s faster and easier to go backwards sometimes. Especially when my hand is full and I can’t push my wheel I’ve found that pushing myself around with my leg is easier.

However, it’s not always “easier” when it comes to steering.

Now, I’m short so it was hard for Pete and anybody tall to push and get a good grip on the handles. So we had to handle extenders that would make that easier.

Unfortunately, it made the handles longer too.

I’m forever backing into something with those handles, like shopping racks and OH SAY PEOPLE.

So there I was piddling around in my kitchen, going backwards, when I heard the “click click click” of our gas stove engaging and felt my handles smack into the stove.

In the time it took me to get turned around the cardboard boxes we’d so thoughtlessly left on the burners were on FIRE.

Did I mention the family was gone and it was just me?

Part of considered just letting it burn and getting out of the house to be safe. The other part of me knew the fire wasn’t very big and even *I* should be able to deal with it.

I did manage to get to the sink, the fire was extinguished,the house was not burned down.

But for all you I feel it’s very important I do this:

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Don’t set shit on your stove. REPEAT. Don’t set shit on your stove. DON’T.SET.SHIT.YOUR.STOVE. or this could happen!

19 Responses to this girl is on fiiiiiiiiiiiiiire!

Good God! I’m glad you’re okay! I’m going to make my husband and grandson read your post and then hang your Smokey sign above the stove (at a safe distance) so they remember to not put shit on the stove.

Holy shit. Seriously. I thought you were kidding when you wrote something about this on FB.

What. The. Hell?

Thank goodness you are okay. And I totally do that. But electric stove, so for me it is leaving crap IN the oven when I preheat. Damn. Thank goodness you are safe.Andrea (@goodgirlgonered)´s last post…Amazing Reads Gone Visual!

holy smokes! i’m so glad you’re ok. we set some burner covers on fire once and I’ve never forgotten the lesson. trying to get them OFF the burners while flaming hot was a challenge, whilst standing. I can’t imagine how difficult it was for you in a sitting position.

Holy crap! So glad you are OK. I am guilty of leaving shit on the stove and it drives my husband crazy. Then I get pissy when he moves my shit. Oy. We have buttons on our stove and the cats have walked across them and turned them on before. I’ll think of you now whenever I’m not putting my shit on the stove.

It’s one of my biggest pet peeves at our house…when people leave things on the stove. I was forever moving off grocery bags, pizza boxes, etc. But we got a new stove not too long ago and it has a light that shows if it’s still hot.

Regardless, nothing should ever be set on stoves. Ever. I’m so very glad you are ok. Way to handle it, btw.Erin´s last post…The End.

Jo Lynn, me too, I lost everything but 1 white tennis shoe and a blue plastic hanger to a house fire when my 2 oldest kids were babies. Then turned around and lost it all again a decade later in a hurricane. It is most definitely heart wrenching and tragic but in both cases all people and pets were ok. Neither of my events were around the holidays. I don’t know if I could have rebounded as fast if it had been. Glad you guys are ok, and I hope you are recovering from your house fire. xo

About Anissa

Erma Bombeck said something that pretty much defines my approach to life.... "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and I could say, "I used everything you gave me." If you switch the word TALENT for LOVE or LAUGHTER or HAPPINESS....it still stands.